The Difference Between You And Me by Madeleine George
These two girls have nothing in common, except the passionate ‘private time’ they share every Tuesday afternoon.
Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson; Mae Henderson
A groundbreaking scholarly collection that makes black queer studies visible as a developing field, bringing together established and emerging scholars to assess theoretical and political issues at the intersection of race and sexuality in the United States.
My Brain Hurts by Liz Baillie
My Brain Hurts Volume One Liz Baillie A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren’t flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It’s like they were your actual high school peers – pissing off the administration … Read more
A Queer History Of The United States by Michael Bronski
It includes significant historical accounts of women-loving-women, such as 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman’s ‘female marriage,’ cross-dressing female soldiers in the Civil War, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
Harley Loco by Rayya Elias
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
Rise And Divine by Lana Harper
A necromantic devil-eating witch haunted by grief must reckon with her past and save her town while pursuing a second-chance romance with the event planner whose heart she’s broken twice.
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
A New Yorker staff writer chronicles her unconventional life as a lesbian journalist who traveled the world, married a woman, became pregnant at 37, and experienced devastating losses that forced her to confront what she could and couldn’t control.
Bodies And Biases: Sexualities In Hispanic Cultures And Literatures (Volume 13) (Institute For Adminstrative Officers Of Higher Ins) by David William Foster; Roberto Reis
This academic work examines sexualities within Hispanic cultures and literatures, which would necessarily include analysis of lesbian and wlw identities, experiences, and representations in Latina/Hispanic contexts.
A + E 4ever by Ilike Merey
An androgynous teenage boy named Ash and Eulalie, a tough-talking lesbian artist, form an intense friendship at the margins of high school society that blurs the boundaries between friendship, love, gender, and sexuality
Queer Theory (Readers In Cultural Criticism, 1) by Iain Morland; Annabelle Willox
An anthology of groundbreaking work mapping, contextualizing, and challenging queer theory’s project with fifteen essays by influential scholars, activists, performers, and visual artists essential for anyone interested in sexuality studies or gender activism.